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Geesthacht, Germany
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Geesthacht, Germany

Northern Europe & Baltic

The small town of Geesthacht is located directly on the banks of the Elbe, north of Hamburg. It has its own lock on which you can walk from one side of the Elbe to the other. But also numerous sights for such a small city. Geesthacht has the Theklahaus and the Besenhoster ruins in the nature reserve. There is also a small half-timbered church in the city center. In the oldest house in town there is a museum and the tourist information office. There are also many small restaurants and rustic bars in the city center.

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Gouda
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Gouda

Northern Europe & Baltic

Gouda is a Dutch city south of Amsterdam in the province of South Holland. It’s known for its namesake cheese and seasonal cheese market, regularly held on the medieval Markt square. Anchoring the square is the 15th-century town tall, a Gothic building with red and white shutters. Also on the square is the 17th-century Goudse Waag, once a cheese-weighing station and now home to the Gouda Cheese Museum.

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Helgoland

Northern Europe & Baltic

Heligoland is a small archipelago in the North Sea. A part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein since 1890, the islands were historically possessions of Denmark, then became the possessions of the United Kingdom from 1807 to 1890, and briefly managed as a war prize from 1945 to 1952.

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Hugh Town

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Isle of Wight
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Isle of Wight

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Jersey, Channel Islands
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Jersey, Channel Islands

Northern Europe & Baltic

Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, between England and France. A self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom, with a mix of British and French cultures, it’s known for its beaches, cliffside walking trails, inland valleys and historic castles. The Jersey War Tunnels complex, in a former hospital excavated by slave labor, documents the island’s 5-year German occupation during WWII.

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Lake District
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Lake District

England · Northern Europe & Baltic

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Lemmer

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Lillesand
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Lillesand

Norway · Northern Europe & Baltic

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List/Sylt
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List/Sylt

Northern Europe & Baltic

List on Sylt is the northernmost municipality in Germany, located on the North Sea island of Sylt close to Denmark in the district of Nordfriesland in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

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Ljmuiden

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Lundy

Northern Europe & Baltic

Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon. About 3 miles long and ⁵⁄₈ mi wide, Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, frequently changing hands between the British crown and various usurpers.

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Marstrand

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Papa Westray

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Sark, Channel Islands

Northern Europe & Baltic

Sark is a part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a royal fief, which forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population of about 500. Sark has an area of 2.10 square miles.

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Scarborough, UK

Northern Europe & Baltic

Scarborough is a large, multicultural area that contains the Scarborough Bluffs, huge cliffs overlooking Lake Ontario, lined with parks, beaches, and hiking trails. Inland, the sprawling Toronto Zoo features global animal pavilions, close-up encounters, and a wildlife health centre. The area is also known for its diverse spread of restaurants, including regional Southeast Asian, Chinese, and Indian cuisine.

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Schoenau

Northern Europe & Baltic

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Snaefellsnes

Northern Europe & Baltic

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St Jean De Losne

Northern Europe & Baltic

Saint-Jean-de-Luz is a fishing town at the mouth of the Nivelle river, in southwest France’s Basque country. The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, where King Louis XIV married Marie-Thérèse of Spain in 1660, has a gilded baroque altarpiece and wooden galleries. The turreted Maison Louis XIV is a museum that recreates 17th-century domestic life with period furniture. It includes the King’s Chamber, where Louis XIV slept.

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St Nazaire

Northern Europe & Baltic

Saint-Nazaire is a city on the west coast of France. Housed in a fortified lock in the harbor is the Espadon, a post-WWII submarine. The Escal’Atlantic museum, a life-size reconstruction of an ocean liner, celebrates the city’s shipbuilding past. To the west, the Tumulus de Dissignac is an ancient burial mound with Neolithic rock carvings. To the north, canals cross the salt marshes of Brière Regional Natural Park.

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St Pierre, Jersey

Northern Europe & Baltic

By heading almost due east from Cap-aux-Meules in Canada, it is possible to reach France in about one day’s worth of steaming! With barely 6,000 inhabitants living on tiny St. Pierre, it is the smallest French Overseas Collective. The residents of St. Pierre are predominantly descendants of Normans, Basque and Bretons and the French spoken is closer to Metropolitan French than to Canadian French. Although Basque is not spoken any longer, the influence is still felt through sport and a Basque Festival.

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Stranda

Norway · Northern Europe & Baltic

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Surtsey

Northern Europe & Baltic

Surtsey is a volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. At 63.303°N 20.605°W, Surtsey is the southernmost point of Iceland. It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 metres below sea level, and reached the surface on 14 November 1963.

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Tory Island

N.Ireland · Northern Europe & Baltic

A scenic cruise by Tory Island is a scenic cruise past Ireland’s most northerly inhabited land, a picturesque gem situated nine miles off Wild Atlantic Way on the northwest coast of County Donegal. As you sail by, you’ll not only be enamoured by the beauty of Tory Island, with its rugged sheer cliffs and vast grasslands, but also get a feel for just how remote the island is, and how detached the inhabitants are from mainland Ireland as they go about their day-to-day lives.

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